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Show 'B. DeMille in the "Union Pacific," which is scheduled to open Sunday at the Ritz theatre. Two popular film stars, Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea, play the lead roles in the heroic story of the "marriage of a nation," assisted by a cast of thousands, Preston, Brian Donlevy, Robert including Akim Tamiroff, Robert Barrat and Evelyn Keyes. The picture has its starting point the day Abraham Lincoln signs the act of Congress creating the railroad. Its climax Is the driving driv-ing of the golden spike at Promontory Prom-ontory Point, Utah, on May 10th, 1869, signifying the completion of the railroad and linking of the two coasts of the United States. "Union Pacific" glorifies the "little people" who made the railroad rail-road possible, rather than the "bigwigs" and the principal characters char-acters are Jeff Butler (McCrea) a trouble-shooter sent out by Washington to help keep order, and Mollie Monahan (Miss Stanwyck), Stan-wyck), daughter of the first engineer engi-neer and typical of the women who inspired the railroad builders. Railroad That Unified A Nation Is Depicted On Screen The building of the "Union Pacific" Pa-cific" railroad, a feat which seventy-five years ago joined the Atlantic and Pacific with an iron bond, cut the journey from New York to San Francisco from a matter of months to days and unified uni-fied a nation, is brought to the screen on an epic scale by Cecil |
